retitle 69311 [PROPOSAL] Symlinks in /usr/doc not mandatory anymore.
thanks
[ I naively proposed something like this after the release of potato,
but it was not the right time... ].
Proposed patch to current policy:
diff -r -u debian-policy-3.5.6.1.orig/policy.sgml
debian-policy-3.5.6.1/policy.sgml
--- debian-policy-3.5.6.1.orig/policy.sgml Thu Mar 14 19:17:48 2002
+++ debian-policy-3.5.6.1/policy.sgml Mon Jul 22 11:19:58 2002
@@ -7383,48 +7383,6 @@
</sect>
- <sect id="usrdoc">
- <heading>Accessing the documentation</heading>
-
- <p>
- Former Debian releases placed all additional documentation
- in <tt>/usr/doc/<var>package</var></tt>. To realize a
- smooth migration to
- <tt>/usr/share/doc/<var>package</var></tt>, each package
- must maintain a symlink <tt>/usr/doc/<var>package</var></tt>
- that points to the new location of its documentation in
- <tt>/usr/share/doc/<var>package</var></tt><footnote>These
- symlinks will be removed in the future, but they have to be
- there for compatibility reasons until all packages have
- moved and the policy is changed accordingly.</footnote>.
- The symlink must be created when the package is installed;
- it cannot be contained in the package itself due to problems
- with <prgn>dpkg</prgn>. One reasonable way to accomplish
- this is to put the following in the package's
- <prgn>postinst</prgn><footnote>
- <p>
- The <tt>debhelper</tt> script
- <prgn>dh_installdocs</prgn> does this automatically.
- </p>
- </footnote>:
- <example compact="compact">
-if [ "$1" = "configure" ]; then
- if [ -d /usr/doc -a ! -e /usr/doc/<var>package</var> \
- -a -d /usr/share/doc/<var>package</var> ]; then
- ln -sf ../share/doc/<var>package</var> /usr/doc/<var>package</var>
- fi
-fi
- </example>
- and the following in the package's <prgn>prerm</prgn>:
- <example compact="compact">
-if [ \( "$1" = "upgrade" -o "$1" = "remove" \) \
- -a -L /usr/doc/<var>package</var> ]; then
- rm -f /usr/doc/<var>package</var>
-fi
- </example>
- </p>
- </sect>
-
<sect>
<heading>Preferred documentation formats</heading>
This way, by removing the requirement that packages must maintain
symlinks in /usr/doc, we are in fact allowing new packages not to
fiddle with symlinks anymore.
I'm looking for seconds for this proposal, which is *just* to stop
requiring symlinks.
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